Let's Become Nothing
J KRISHNAMURTI
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All one's education, past experience and knowledge are a movement in becoming, inwardly , psychologically as well as outwardly . Becoming is the accumulation of memory , called knowledge. As long as that movement exists, there is fear of being nothing. But when one really sees the illusion of becoming something, to see there is nothing, this becoming is endless time-thought and conflict, there is the ending of the movement that is the psyche, which is time-thought. The ending of that is to be nothing.Nothing, then, contains the whole universe -not my petty little fears and petty little anxieties and problems, and my sorrow with regard to, you know, a dozen things.
Nothing means the entire world of compassion -compassion is nothing. And, therefore, that nothingness is supreme intelligence. That's all there is.So, why are human beings -just ordinary , intelligent -frightened of being nothing? If I see that I am nothing but dead memories, that's a fact. But I don't like to think I am just nothing but memories. But that's the truth.
If I had no memory , either I'm in a state of amnesia or I understand the whole movement of memory , which is time-thought, and see the fact as long as there is this movement, there must be endless conflict, struggle and pain. And when there is an insight into that, nothing means something entirely different. And that nothing is the present -being nothing is no time, therefore, it is not ending one day and beginning another day .
Nothing means the entire world of compassion -compassion is nothing. And, therefore, that nothingness is supreme intelligence. That's all there is.So, why are human beings -just ordinary , intelligent -frightened of being nothing? If I see that I am nothing but dead memories, that's a fact. But I don't like to think I am just nothing but memories. But that's the truth.
If I had no memory , either I'm in a state of amnesia or I understand the whole movement of memory , which is time-thought, and see the fact as long as there is this movement, there must be endless conflict, struggle and pain. And when there is an insight into that, nothing means something entirely different. And that nothing is the present -being nothing is no time, therefore, it is not ending one day and beginning another day .
